2024 marks the 50th year of skiing in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. The North Staffs Ski Club, originally boasting just 27 Members was formed on 3rd June 1974 shortly after the local council opened the ski lodge. Within three years the club race team won the West Midlands Regional Trophy in the ‘Sport for All’ series of events but by March, 1979,

The BRC Snow Club, a global community and Burning Man theme camp that famously brought a dry ski slope to the huge week-long desert festival in Nevada, has announced plans to go even bigger this year and join forces with an ‘Alien Ski Resort’ themed camp! “The first year with the slope was a wild success, with hundreds of participants

The long-established Mt. Aggie dry ski slope at Texas A&M University in America has been damaged in a windstorm, and the university is now fundraising for a new surface for the slope. Mt. Aggie, located on the university’s West Campus, was established more than five decades ago. Established in 1971, it is believed to be North America’s longest surviving dry

Ski touring, also known as ski mountaineering, has become increasingly popular in recent years and that’s set to increase further after the sport is included in the Winter Olympics for the first time at the 2026 games in Italy. Although the sport focuses on the ascent through pristine nature on your ascent, and then, ideally, a run down on fresh

SNÖBAHN has opened a massive new action sports facility at a brand-new 38,000 square feet location in Thornton, Colorado, with four SkiMachines by Alpine Engineering. The company was founded in 2016 by Sadler Merrill, a Colorado native and former University of Colorado freestyle ski team member who had a dream of create a secure haven for honing tricks and enhancing

A huge new dry ski slope with surface material supplied by British manufacturer Snowflex isd set to open at the former ski area of Sleepy Hollow in Polk County, Iowa. The 50,000-square-foot (4650 sqm) slope will be, “The world’s largest all-weather tubing hill,” according to its operators.  There’s also talk of skiing and snowboarding resuming, potentially, after the site has

Jasmin “Jaz” Taylor, Britain’s most successful ever World Cup ski racer, who began skiing on a dry ski slope in Ipswich, has secured the Telemark Overall and Sprint Crystal Globes for the first time, after more than a decade on the circuit. Taylor (30), secured the globes, awarded to those with the most points accumulated through the course of the

Winter 23-24 has provided challenges for many ski areas around the world, battling periods of warm temperatures and low natural snowfall, with temperatures also too high at times for conventional snowmaking. Neveplast LIFT has emerged as an innovative solution, used by numerous ski resort managers to overcome the difficulties related to snow scarcity in areas required for  chairlift boarding and